Volume 2

Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital.

Date:
1847-59
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    19. A portion of Liver in an advanced stage of cirrhosis. Tlie surface is thickly studded with nodules; a section exhibits very distinctly the condensed tissue between the lobules. 20. Two small portions of Liver, the surfaces and sections of which 21. show cirrhosis in a very advanced stage. The surface is very irregular, and elevated into nodules, varying in size from a pin's head to a pea; and a section shows rounded groups of lobules, each surrounded by a dense fibrous capsule. 22. A Liver, very much diminished in size; the whole is in an advanced state of cirrhosis, as shown both by a section and the in-egularity of the surface. The cystic duct is sac- culated, its coats are thickened, and its cahbre in one part is so much contracted as not to admit a bristle, though a small quantity of bile oozed through it when the gall-bladder was pressed. From a girl, eet. 15, who never drank spii-its ; she became jaundiced two days before death, and died suddenly of hajmoptysis and pulmonary apoplexy.—Case Book, vol. i., p. 291. 23. Sections of Liver, showing masses of earthy deposit in its sub- stance. Li the recent state, the section of the organ was rather pale and somewhat indurated, and was studded with spots and streaks, and in some parts an imperfect network, of a buff-coloured material. This material stood out from the surface, and felt hard and gritty; it was evidently due to a deposition of earthy matter, for, as seen under the microscope^ it dissolved with effervescence on the addition of acetic acid. The deposit appeared to be situated in the cells of the liver; for in every part it existed under the form of angular refractive masses, of the same size, for the most part, as the liver cells, similarly arranged and evidently occujiying spaces which had originally been occupied by healthy liver cells. Taken from a boy, at. 16, who died from anasarca after scarlatina.— Vide April 7th, 1856. 2'1. Two sections from the same Liver as the preceding, dried and immersed in spirits of turpentine. VOL. II. z